Echeveria laui
| Echeveria laui | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Echeveria laui |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Echeveria laui | ||||||||||||
| Moran & J. Meyrán |
Echeveria laui is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The specific epithet laui honors the German missionary and plant collector Alfred Bernhard Lau .
description
Echeveria laui usually grows without branches. Those with persistent, dry bottom foliage leaves occupy shoots are 5 to 10 centimeters long and reach diameter of about 1.5 centimeters. The leaf rosette has a diameter of 10 to 12 centimeters. At the tip of the obovate and broadly blunt foliage is a tiny, attached tip. The leaf blade is 5 to 8.5 inches long, 3 to 4.5 inches wide and 6 to 8 millimeters thick. Their almost flat to slightly concave surface is strongly colored white- glaciers or occasionally pinkish-reddish glaciers.
The 6 to 10 centimeter long inflorescence has five to seven strongly glauke bracts and is designed as a wrap with nine to 17 flowers . The flower stalk is 2 to 4 millimeters long. The ascending, very unequal sepals of the flowers are 3 to 18 millimeters long. The red frosted corolla is pentagonal-pyramidal in shape and 13 to 16 millimeters long.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 30.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria laui is distributed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in one of the side valleys of the Río Salado-Quiotepec at altitudes of about 500 meters.
It was first described in 1976 by Reid Venable Moran and Jorge Meyrán .
use
This species has not been in culture for long because of its late discovery. Due to its noticeably frosted gray-blue leaf rosettes, it is enjoying increasing popularity as an ornamental plant .
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 118 .
- Thomas Linzen: A jewel among the Echeveria - Echeveria laui . In: Cacti and other succulents . 63rd volume (2012), issue 4, pp. 93–98
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 133.
- ↑ Echeveria laui at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ R. Moran, J. Meyran: Echeveria laui, una nueva especie de Oaxaca . In: Cactaceas y Suculentas Mexicanas . tape 21 , no. 3 , 1976, p. 59-62 . ( PDF ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
